from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/9/2006 1:53 PM
My doctor at the VA is not incompetent. He just is not law enforcement and doesn’t have the resources necessary to solve the actual problem that is agitating me. If the police would do their jobs and prosecute the people trying to terrorize me, such as Microsoft and Dave Reichert, then I wouldn’t even need a doctor from the VA, which I don’t even need at all
http://www.tv.com/shows/nova/computers-spies-and-private-lives-944547/
tv.com
NOVA Season 9 Episode 1
Computers, Spies & Private Lives
Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Sep 27, 1981 on PBS
Episode Summary
NOVA examines possible threats of modern computers on privacy rights. Discussed are nationwide databanks and the thieves who hack into them, telecomputers and smart cards, and the various uses and abuses of all this collected information about our daily lives.
AIRED: 9/27/81
http://www.tv.com/shows/wings/final-approach-2-16547/trivia/
tv.com
Wings Season 8 Episode 24
Final Approach (2)
Aired Thursday 9:30 PM May 21, 1997 on NBC
NOTES
2nd part of the Hour-Long Series Finale.
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http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/blue-tree-new-york-city-its-not-you-its.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 6:44 PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Blue Tree New York City, It's Not You, It's Me
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/galactica-spokane.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:02 PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Galactica Spokane
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/annie-potts-leon-theremin-super-scouts.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 3:14 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Annie Potts, Leon Theremin, The Super Scouts
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
William Adama, commander of the interstellar warship Battlestar Galactica: Yeah, are you - (clears throat) Is your ship all right?
Lee Adama (Apollo): We're both fine. Thanks for asking.
Adama: Is your ship's FTL functioning?
(The pilot nods.)
Apollo: That's affirmative.
Adama: Then you're ordered to bring yourself and all of your passengers to the rendezvous point. Acknowledge.
Apollo: Acknowledge... receipt of message.
Adama: What the hell does that mean?
Apollo: It means, I heard you.
Adama: You're gonna have to do a lot better than that, Captain.
Apollo: We're engaged in rescue operations.
Adama: You are to abort your mission immediately and proceed to Ragnar.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/19/2006 11:09 AM
A while back I was writing about a clue, or coincidence, I noticed in the premier of the “Lost” t.v. series. There were two clues I noticed actually, but I can’t remember which I wrote first about. One was the part where the character Claire tells Jack that she is 8 months pregnant. I realized that 8 months earlier from the premier date of that September 22, 2004, episode was precisely when I put in my notice to quit Microsoft.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 10/16/2006 2:00 PM
No, looking at the calendar, it was more likely 1/21 when I put in my notice. The 23rd was a Friday and was exactly two weeks before my departure date of Feb. 6th and I remember that my notice was slightly more than two weeks. I have also been thinking it was a Wednesday when I told them I was leaving.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 01/21/07 6:09 PM
I'm pretty certain it was 1/21/2004 when I put in my notice.
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 1/21/2004 is 16395 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/22/2010 is 16395 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 9/22/2010 is 5056 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/6/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Operation: Lifeline"::"Dr. Charles Wilson, Neurosurgeon, San Francisco" ) is 5056 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 9/22/2010 is 5056 days
5056 = 2528 + 2528
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/4/1972 ( premiere US TV series "ABC Afterschool Specials" ) is 2528 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 9/22/2010 is 7130 days
7130 = 3565 + 3565
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/7/1975 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Linsey Dawn McKenzie ) is 3565 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 9/22/2010 is 5808 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/27/1981 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Computers, Spies & Private Lives" ) is 5808 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/4/2008 ( referenced in text below ) is 16395 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/22/2010 is 16395 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/undercovers/pilot-1348033/
tv.com
Undercovers Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Aired Wednesday 8:00 PM Sep 22, 2010 on NBC
Episode Summary
Two married, retired spooks - Steven and Samantha Bloom, are reinstated when a close friend of theirs goes missing.
AIRED: 9/22/10
http://www.tv.com/shows/better-with-you/pilot-1352610/
Better With You Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Aired Wednesday 8:30 PM Sep 22, 2010 on ABC
AIRED: 9/22/10
"Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible" (2009) {First Contact (#2.5)} USA:22 September 2010
"AOL Travel" (2010) {Seattle (#1.3)} USA:22 September 2010
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/04/08 10:51 PM
I miss beyond tolerance this beautiful woman. I cannot even yet consciously remember her.
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/04/08 8:38 PM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
EPA Official: S-sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...
Russ Cargill: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 06/04/08 2:36 PM
http://www.chakoteya.net/Enterprise/08.htm
Breaking The Ice
Mission date: Unknown
Original Airdate: Nov 07, 2001
ARCHER: Come in.
TUCKER: Well, we decrypted the message.
ARCHER: And?
TUCKER: It's not exactly what we expected. It's a letter.
ARCHER: What did it say?
TUCKER: It's personal.
ARCHER: What do you mean?
TUCKER: Very personal. You could order me to tell you, sir, but you wouldn't be happy if I did.
ARCHER: Why the hell was it encrypted?
TUCKER: That's what I want to know. Maybe Vulcans encrypt all their personal letters. All they had to do was send it through regular channels, mark it personal, and we'd have left it alone. But no, they had to encrypt it, force me to start snooping. I feel like I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar.
ARCHER: Let it go, Trip. Come on, it was an honest mistake.
TUCKER: I can't let it go. I've got to tell her.
ARCHER: How's that going to help?
TUCKER: It's the right thing to do. At least I'll be able to look her in the eye without feeling guilty.
ARCHER: You're a good man. You might want to take a phase pistol with you.
TUCKER: I might need one.
TUCKER: Got a minute? In private?
T'POL: Excuse us, crewman. (crewman leaves)
TUCKER: Did you ever, did you ever do anything totally by mistake that you weren't very proud of?
T'POL: No.
TUCKER: Did you ever come across something that you thought was one thing so you reacted in a certain way, but then it turned out to be something completely different?
T'POL: Your point, Commander?
TUCKER: I found out about your message from the Vulcan ship.
T'POL: It was a personal matter.
TUCKER: Why wasn't it sent through normal Starfleet channels?
T'POL: That takes time. The letter was important.
TUCKER: So they sent it in code? Do you have any idea how suspicious that looked?
T'POL: You read my letter?
From 3/16/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"The Super Scouts - Part 1" ) To 1/21/2004 is 8711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/8/1989 ( Paul Alfred Weiss dead ) is 8711 days
From 12/27/1941 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 9001 Establishing Methods for Wartime Procurement ) To 3/16/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"The Super Scouts - Part 1" ) is 13959 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/21/2004 is 13959 days
From 2/18/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - extravehicular activity #5 completes the mission's servicing and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope ) To 1/21/2004 is 2528 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/4/1972 ( premiere US TV series "The ABC Afterschool Special" ) is 2528 days
From 12/19/1941 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 8985 Establishing the Office of Censorship ) To 1/21/2004 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 8/31/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks Opening the United States Exhibit at the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 13959 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/21/2004 is 13959 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 1/21/2004 is 4694 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/9/1978 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Paper Chase" ) is 4694 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/21/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: Voyager"::"Scorpion: Part 1" ) is 13959 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/21/2004 is 13959 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/21/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "Wings"::series finale episode "Final Approach" ) is 13959 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/21/2004 is 13959 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 1/21/2004 is 4752 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 4752 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 1/21/2004 is 4752 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/6/1978 ( premiere US film "Midnight Express" ) is 4752 days
From 6/21/1988 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Indian Country" ) To 1/21/2004 is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=63337
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks in a Discussion at Mesa Community College in Phoenix, Arizona
January 21, 2004
The President. Well, I appreciate you having me here. You've got an interesting accent—[laughter]—thought for a minute you were from Texas. [Laughter] Then he told me he was from Australia. And we really appreciate our friends from Australia.
First, I want to thank you for letting me come by. This is going to be an interesting dialog to talk about how to make sure our community college systems—not only here in Arizona but around the country—meet the needs of the modern workforce. Let me put it another way—make sure that people get the skills necessary to find work. And that's what we're really here to talk about.
The reason why we're here at Mesa is because you're doing a great job. I'm sure we'll hear some of that soon. Before we do, though, I want to recognize Members of the United States Congress who are here. I appreciate so very much them coming. That would be J.D. Hayworth and Trent Franks and Jeff Flake. I don't know if you guys were there last night—this is the ultimate loyalty, when they hear a long speech last night, then they come and get to hear another speech, back to back. But thank you all for being here. I appreciate your service to our country and your State.
I know there's elected officials here. I know there are members of the community college board of trustees. I met the chairman, by the way, who did a fine job of lobbying on behalf of the funding for the community college system—[laughter]—in this vital part of our country.
Let me—just a couple of comments, and then we'll start the dialog. First, we're still at war. And we're going to win the war, because there's a lot of really brave, capable, courageous Americans who are willing to sacrifice for liberty and freedom.
I was so touched, when I went to Baghdad or when I met our troops around our country, to realize there are people in our country who are serving something greater than themself. I think that's such a wonderful part of our Nation and our culture. And you just got to know, our Government will do everything we can to keep us safe— keep us safe by staying on the offensive, by changing parts of the world that had embraced tyranny. We believe strongly in America that freedom is the Almighty God's gift to every person who lives in the world, every man and woman. And America will continue to have a forward strategy of freedom to make the world more peaceful.
And it's hard work. I know it is. But in my judgment, it's essential work. It's essential work so that our children can grow up in a peaceful and free society. It's essential work so others' children can grow up in a peaceful and free world as well.
At home, we got a lot of good people working in homeland security. I met the Governor at the airport today. It rained. [Laughter] I said, "Do you want to take credit for the rain, or do you want me to take credit for the rain?" [Laughter] But she's working hard, and the coordination between the Federal and State and local authorities is good. We're doing everything we can to protect us.
The other thing that's happening is, is that our economy is beginning to grow. And that's important. There's no need to talk about job training if we're not creating new jobs. And that's what we're here to discuss.
I just want to remind everybody right quick what we have been through, just to show you how strong America is and how great the American people are. We've been through a recession. We went—we were attacked, and make no mistake about it, the attack hurt. The attack hurt because it made it abundantly clear that this Nation is no longer protected by oceans and that we've got to get on the offensive if we're interested in keeping us peace and safe. We had some corporate scandals. That hurt us. It hurt us when citizens who should know better didn't tell the truth to their employees and their shareholders. They're now being held to account, by the way, because of good laws we passed. Then we marched to war. When you're marching to war to make our country more secure and the world more free, it is not conducive to capital investment. That's a negative thought. When you turn on your TV screens for a lot of last year, it said "March To War." And that didn't instill a lot of confidence in the people, because there's a lot of uncertainty when "a march to war." We're now marching to peace, and we're changing the world in a better way.
And the economy is growing, and jobs are getting better. There will be honest disagreement about what I'm about to tell you, but I strongly believe that the tax relief we passed is helping this economy grow and that people have more money in their pocket. So there are jobs.
Now, I'm going to talk about—we'll talk about the new jobs of the 21st century. There are some old jobs, however, that are being filled by people from other countries. Let's be very frank about what I'm about to tell you. There are some jobs that employers are having trouble filling because Americans don't want to do them. And therefore, there are people from foreign countries coming to do the jobs.
There's a spirit of parenthood in everybody's heart, if you happen to be a mom or a dad. There's a deep desire for people to put food on the table to fulfill their obligations. And that's what's happening a lot when people come from countries like Mexico to work. They're coming to make a living, and they're filling jobs that, frankly, others won't do. It seems like to me that we ought to have a policy that's open and honest about this phenomena. It's a policy that, in my judgment, should say, where there's a willing worker and a willing employer, those two ought to be matched up together in a legal way, so long as the employer can't find an American to do the job.
What I'm talking about is a temporary-worker program that recognizes the reality of our economy. It's a temporary-worker program that also says clearly, we're a land of rule of law, that having people in the shadows of our economy is not really the American way, is it? So what I want to do is to say, let's have it all legal, in this sense: You can come to our country for a period of time so long as there's a job available for you.
Now, that doesn't mean there's automatic citizenship, quite the contrary. I strongly oppose what they call "amnesty" because all amnesty would do is invite more illegal immigration. All amnesty would do would say to those who are waiting in line in a legal way to become a citizen that legality—being legal doesn't matter in America. It does matter. So what I wanted Congress to consider for certain kinds of jobs is to put out a temporary-worker card; to get rid of all this business about people forging documents that put employers at risk; that say, for the period of time you're here, you can go home and take money back without fear of being arrested. It's a humane way to approach citizens of the world. Imagine being a worker here, and you get abused, and you don't dare call the abuser to account because you might get sent home and you can't do your job of making money for your family. So that's what I call on Congress to do.
It also is going to help our Border Patrol. It's essential for the security of this country that we have a legal system so we don't have this terrible problem of "coyotes" smuggling these people across the hot Arizona or Texas deserts, making money off the system that has now developed in America. I think we ought to let the sunshine in, have a legal system, recognize realities.
At the same time in our country we have a debate over those kind of jobs, we've always got to remember to make sure that Americans can find work too, of course. One of the interesting phenomena is the technological changes that are charging through our economy. And this Govern-ment—[inaudible]—for us to understand that as technologies change, oftentimes people can be left behind. And we've got to address it straight on.
And one of the greatest places to address that phenomena is at the community college system. And the reason why it's the community college system, it's flexible in its curriculum. The old days of workforce training are now changing. It used to be they said, "Look, just go train people," so States would go out and train 1,000 beauticians for 50 jobs. And there would be 950 beauticians without work. But they'd say, "Oh, we punched our ticket. We actually trained people."
Now we've got a new attitude in America. We're going to train people for the jobs that actually exist, and therefore requires a system that is flexible, a system willing to take input from the employers, a system that is willing to change curriculum, if need be, to meet the demands of local—of the local workplace.
So last night in my speech, I talked about spending additional money to focus directly on these programs, these collaborative programs at the community college level, that takes the input from business, takes the desire of workers, matches them so people can find good work. And so Congress needs to pass $250-million job training money to go specifically to community colleges to fund the kind of programs we're going to talk about here today.
I've been talking too much over the last 24 hours, so I want Martin to tell us how this collaborative effort got going. Now, one of the things that's interesting, I told our panelists, is that not only are you speaking to the folks here, but there's a lot of people listening. I hope community college systems pay attention to what they're about to hear, pay attention to what they're—what's taking place here in Arizona. It's a interesting idea. And it's one, I might add, that the Department of Labor has helped fund to get started.
So Martin, why don't you educate the people?
[At this point, Martin Bean, chief operating officer, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, and chair, CompTIA Policy Committee, made brief remarks.]
The President. Obviously, the IT industry is strong here in Arizona.
Mr. Bean. Absolutely.
The President. Well—and tell us how this got started.
Mr. Bean. How we got started?
The President. Yes. Did you call everybody in the room and said, "All right, let's get after it?" Somebody needs workers, obviously. And so you came up with an interesting idea.
Mr. Bean. It really got started because educators got frustrated that they had to reinvent the wheel in every community college, and employers got frustrated that there was no clear way for them to be able to mentor and coach employees. And as the industry's association, CompTIA said, "Fine, we'll work with the Department of Labor, and instead of building programs for where there aren't any jobs, we'll build a set of standards for people to educate to employers' needs to get work."
The President. A strategy.
Mr. Bean. There we go. And now we're executing.
The President. Now you're implementing.
Mr. Bean. Exactly.
The President. Well, why don't we hear—let's talk to some of the implementers. Larry is the president of Mesa Community College, Larry Christiansen. Thank you for your hospitality.
Larry K. Christiansen. Thank you, Mr. President.
The President. I appreciate your staff for putting up with this giant entourage of mine. [Laughter]
Dr. Christiansen. It's been a fun few days.
The President. I bet it has, yes. [Laughter]
[Dr. Christiansen made brief remarks.]
The President. Good. How many people come to this particular campus?
Dr. Christiansen. Just at our little place here, at Mesa Community College, we have 27,000 students.
The President. Right.
Dr. Christiansen. We have about 3,000 that participate in our Business and Industry Center.
The President. And the Business and Industry Center's sole purpose is to train people for jobs?
Dr. Christiansen. That's correct.
The President. And you've got 3,000 now?
Dr. Christiansen. Right. That is in addition to, as all of our colleges, we have other occupational programs that focus on job training as well. But much of what our Business and Industry Center does is partnering with industry.
The President. Right. Here we're talking about IT. I went to a community college in North Carolina. There we talked about health care. And the only reason I bring that up is that there are several fields where there's really fast-growing opportunities. It just requires a certain skill. You just can't walk into the job unless you're able to be educated into the ways of that particular industry. And in our country, it's—a changing economy provides interesting opportunities. And Mary is responsible for making sure it all works, aren't you?
Mary I. Vanis. We hope so.
The President. Yes. Tell us your job.
[Dr. Vanis, director, Center for Workforce Development, Maricopa Community Colleges, made brief remarks.]
The President. It's the ultimate community outreach.
Dr. Vanis. It's a great community outreach.
The President. It works because it's administered at the State and local level. It's really good public policy.
Dr. Vanis. It's a great policy.
The President. I presume some of our students—it's interesting to call you a student, isn't it? [Laughter] You never thought you would be a student, did you, at this stage of your life, which sets a classic example for others to understand that if times get tough and if you've got the desire, somebody will want to help you. And in Arizona, you get help right here. Good job.
You want to start? Stacey is with us, Stacey Leedom. She is a student. Stacey, why don't you tell us your story? I told Stacey and Bill and Bob that you just don't know, somebody might be watching our discussion here, wondering whether or not he or she can have a bright future. And to the extent that you can help shed light on where you've been and where you're going, it would awfully helpful.
[Stacey Leedom made brief remarks, concluding as follows.]
Ms. Leedom. I was lucky enough to get hired on by a company called Cable One, contracting first through a temporary service. But they are actually owned by the Washington Post. [Laughter]
The President. Can you change the editorial page? [Laughter]
Ms. Leedom. I'll ask. [Laughter]
The President. Good luck. I hope you rise quickly in the ranks. [Laughter]
Ms. Leedom. Sorry about that.
The President. Yes.
Ms. Leedom. Again, it helps me with a daughter. I want her to go to college. I don't want her to make mistakes I made of not going at a young age and having a full future and a full retirement plan and everything. I now have insurance for her. I have insurance for myself. It's a future.And I'm right now, at an entry level, where I was after 15 years of being a graphic artist, on income. And that is—in the end, who has to pay the bills? Mom has to pay the bills.
The President. That's a really—first of all, being a single mom is the toughest job in America. Being a single mom who needs more education and has the desire to do so is doubly tough. And yours is a wonderful story. It is a story that others need to listen to. If you're worried about your skill set, you're never too old to learn. As a matter of fact, we all learn in different ways, don't we? You've been able to take your desire to do your duty as a responsible citizen and convert it to a employable skill.
What's really interesting about what she said—I want people to hear this—when you hear about productivity increases and the changing economy, she just said by taking time to develop new skills, she makes more in her new job, in the new world, than she did after 15 years in her old job.
The changing economy can leave people behind if we're not wise. But the changing economy also is good news. It creates higher paying, higher quality jobs. And that's what's happening here in America. And that's why it's essential that these kind of programs that we're talking about provide willing souls with the skills necessary to take advantage of it. Fifteen years of work, her pay now is higher in one year—how long have you been at Capital One?
Ms. Leedom. I've actually not been there a year; I've been there about 6 months.
The President. I rest my case. I appreciate that. Good job.
Ms. Leedom. Thank you, sir.
The President. Bob Chapman.
[Bob Chapman, a Mesa Community College student, made brief remarks, concluding as follows.]
Mr. Chapman. And at the moment now, I plan on getting my degree this spring, and so I'm right now out looking for a job. I was able to use some of the resources at the——
The President. Yes, one-stop center.
Mr. Chapman. One-stop center. [Laughter] That's the easiest way. I was trying to say the formal name for it—at the one-stop center.
The President. It happens to me all the time. [Laughter]
Mr. Chapman. Then I'm in good company. [Laughter]
The President. Well, thank you.
[The discussion continued.]
The President. I think it's important for people who wonder whether or not they can afford to go back to community college, there's pots of money that will help—Pell grants in this case, trade adjustment money in your case. And I assume the financial burden has been eased quite significantly.
[The discussion continued.]
The President. You mentioned a word that I want to spring off here for a second—mentoring. I just want everybody to know that the true strength of the country is not our military power or the fact that we're the wealthiest nation in the world. The true strength of the country is the fact that we've got people with really good hearts. That's the strength of America; it's the decency and honor of our people. Obviously, what you just said is part of what I'm talking about, mentoring to help people.
Hilary Juel is with us today. Hilary, I'm sorry to embarrass you. You shouldn't have come out to see me at Air Force One if you didn't want me to introduce you. [Laughter] She is a—she's with Make a Difference service group here in Phoenix. Their job is to match loving hearts with broken hearts, is the best way to describe it; is to help people who heard the call to love a neighbor to just do that; is to help save this community and ultimately our country, one soul at a time.
I want to thank you for being a soldier in the army of compassion. I want to urge people in this community to gather up the spirit of the Hilarys or what you've heard here today, to make a difference in somebody's lives. And it doesn't take much to do so, by the way. If you teach a child to read, you're helping America. If you go to a shut-in's house and just tell him you love him on a regular basis, you're making a difference. No, the strength of this country is the fact that we've got citizens willing to serve something greater than themself.
I think the community college system of America is one of our great strengths. I hope that people who have listened here can see that in the living proof of three citizens who, because of their own will and their own desire, took advantage of the opportunity and are now working or soon-to-be working. [Laughter] Well, two working and one filling out a resume. [Laughter]
But I appreciate you all sharing your stories with us. It's important to know that— for people to know that as this economy changes, there's opportunity. You've just got to seize it, just like you three have done. I want to thank you for your—for the example you've set. I want to thank the folks here for providing a great service to our Nation.
And may God bless you all.
NOTE: The President spoke at 4:06 p.m. In his remarks, he referred to Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona; and Bill Moses, student, Mesa Community College.
Citation: George W. Bush: "Remarks in a Discussion at Mesa Community College in Phoenix, Arizona," January 21, 2004.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/releaseinfo
IMDb
Midnight Express (1978)
Release Info
USA 6 November 1978 (New York City, New York)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/fullcredits
IMDb
Midnight Express (1978)
Full Cast & Crew
Brad Davis ... Billy Hayes
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Montana settlement]
LAFORGE: Doctor!
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: Yeah.
LAFORGE: Would you mind taking a look at this?
COCHRANE: Yeah.
LAFORGE: I've tried to reconstruct the intermix chamber from what I remember at school. Tell me if I got it right.
COCHRANE: School? You learned about this in school?
LAFORGE: Oh yeah. 'Basic Warp Design' is a required course at the Academy. The first chapter is called 'Zefram Cochrane'.
COCHRANE: Well, it looks like you got it right.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970039/releaseinfo
IMDb
Operation: Lifeline (TV Series)
Dr. Charles Wilson, Neurosurgeon, San Francisco (1979)
Release Info
USA 6 September 1979
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970039/
IMDb
Operation: Lifeline (1978–1979)
Dr. Charles Wilson, Neurosurgeon, San Francisco
1h Documentary Episode aired 6 September 1979
Season 2 Episode 1
Release Date: 6 September 1979 (USA)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
BORG QUEEN (off-camera): Do you always talk this much?
DATA: Not always, ...but often.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Alfred-Weiss
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Paul Alfred Weiss
AMERICAN BIOLOGIST
Paul Alfred Weiss, (born March 21, 1898, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 8, 1989, White Plains, N.Y., U.S.), Austrian-born American biologist who did pioneering research on the mechanics of nerve regeneration, nerve repair, and cellular organization. During World War II Weiss and his colleagues developed and tested the first practical system of preserving human tissue for later surgical grafting.
Weiss was trained at the University of Vienna. As assistant director of the Biological Research Institute of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (1922–29), he conducted analytical studies of cell movement, tissue organization, and organ formation, work that ultimately contributed to the understanding of the mechanics of wound healing.
Weiss went to the United States to work in the Yale University Laboratory from 1931 to 1933. From Yale he moved to the University of Chicago (1933–54), but his research on tissue organization and development was interrupted during World War II, when, working for the U.S. government, he sought improved methods of surgical nerve repair. He developed a technique for the sutureless splicing of severed nerves, for which accomplishment he received a merit citation from the U.S. War and Naval departments. He became a U.S. citizen in 1939.
As professor at the laboratory of developmental biology at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City (1954–64), Weiss continued his morphological studies and, with his laboratory associates, demonstrated that different organs’ cells that have been randomly mixed and reassembled have the ability to reorganize themselves into miniature replicas of the donor organs. After two years (1964–66) as professor and dean of the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the designation of emeritus professor was conferred on Weiss by the Rockefeller University, New York City.
Among his many works, including several hundred scientific papers, is Principles of Development (1939), a textbook in experimental embryology. In 1979 Weiss was awarded the National Medal of Science.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[ Opening scenes ]
[Picard's quarters]
(Picard is having a dream about his memories from end of "Best of Both Worlds, Part I.")
BORG QUEEN: Locutus.
PICARD: I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.
(he is awakened by a comm bleep just as he is starting to be assimilated)
PICARD: Authorisation Picard four seven alpha tango. ...Admiral?
HAYES (on viewer): Did I catch you at a bad time Jean-Luc?
PICARD: No, of course not.
HAYES (on viewer): I've just received a disturbing report from Deep Space 5. Our colony on Ivor Prime was destroyed this morning. Long-range sensors have picked up...
PICARD: Yes, I know. ...The Borg.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018
First Contact
https://www.cnet.com/news/new-pdas-well-in-hand-1/
c net
INTERNET
New PDAs well in hand
A handful of hardware makers at Comdex unveil new handheld PCs that run on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for prices starting below $500.
NOVEMBER 18, 1996 11:15 AM PST
A handful of hardware makers today at Comdex unveiled new handheld PCs that run on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for prices starting at under $500 apiece.
Devices from Casio Computer, Compaq Computer, Hitachi, and Philips Electronics are designed for business people on the road who are looking for a compatible lightweight counterpart to their desktop PCs.
The Windows 95-based machines offer remote and wireless connections for checking email as well as connecting to the Internet and corporate intranets. They also allow users to synchronize data with a range of Microsoft desktop applications, send and receive faxes, and perform other tasks.
Some of the pint-sized PCs have already begun to roll off assembly lines, while others will be launched into the market during the first quarter of next year. They come with a choice of 2MB or 4MB RAM and several are powered by ordinary AA batteries.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-11-20/news/ls-913_1_star-trek
Los Angeles Times
RSVP / INTO THE NIGHT
'First Contact' With a Soon-to-Be Hit
November 20, 1996 BILL HIGGINS SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Scene: Monday's benefit premiere of Paramount's "Star Trek: First Contact" at Mann's Chinese theater. A party followed at the nearby Hollywood Colonnade. Filmgoers with lives beyond the "Trek" biosphere should find the film readily accessible. One woman associated with the TV series said: "Borgs are bad; humans are good. That's all you need to know."
The Buzz: The universe will have to expand to contain the money this film will make. The opening weekend will go where no film grosses have gone before.
Who Was There: Stars Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Alice Krige and Alfre Woodard; director-star Jonathan Frakes; producer Rick Berman; Rene Auberjonois, Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney and Armin Shimerman, who acted in sundry "Star Trek" shows; plus 1,000 guests, including Ted Harbert, Roger Birnbaum, Mark Gordon, Nick Reed, Lou Pitt and studio execs Sherry Lansing, Jonathan Dolgen and Don Granger.
Fan Reaction: Zealots seemed satisfied that customary plot points were embraced--aliens invading the ship, time travel, malfunction of holodeck or other key component, emotions unleashed in roboticly unemotional person, etc. Most said it was one of the series' best. One woman from the Midwest said, "The worst was the one William Shatner directed where at the end they were all sitting around a campfire singing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat.' "
Quoted: "If I'm explaining the film to someone with no foreknowledge of 'Star Trek,' " Stewart said, "I would say it's a film about the power of the individual to overcome the repressive many."
Best Strange Idea: One guest, who was familiar with the film's myriad product tie-ins, said, "They should have gone for the Borg Barbie."
Money Matters: Tickets were $200, and about $70,000 was raised for Amnesty International. William Schulz, the human rights organization's U.S. executive director, said, "On the most basic level, Amnesty is about making tyrants tremble, and that's what this movie is about."
Noted: Before the film rolled, the actors, director and producer--but not the screenwriters--were all introduced. One Hollywood writer's aside was, "I'm going to talk to Amnesty about representing the tortured screenwriters in this business."
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: So, what is it you want me to do?
RIKER: Simple. Conduct your warp flight tomorrow morning just as you planned.
COCHRANE: Why tomorrow morning?
RIKER: Because at eleven o'clock an alien ship will begin passing through this solar system.
COCHRANE: Alien? You mean extra-terrestrials. More bad guys?
TROI: Good guys. They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. ...Too primitive.
From 2/11/1929 ( the wacko cult phony religious Vatican City established among all the other wacko nutjob religions on this Planet Earth and RELIGION IS COWARDICE ) To 3/16/1991 ( the first successful major test of the ultraspace matter transportation device by Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 12/20/1994 ( on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/18/1996 is 699 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/2/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Memorandum on Inaugurating a Test Program To Reduce Hard-Core Unemployment ) is 699 days
From 7/3/1958 ( the first flight of the John Silva "Telecopter" ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 1/1/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to the Attorney General on Receiving His Report on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) To 11/18/1996 is 3136 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 6/4/1974 ( construction begins of the United States space shuttle Enterprise ) is 3136 days
From 12/19/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the E-3 Seaman United States Navy I reported aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 departing 11 February 1986 as FC3 Kerry Wayne Burgess US Navy ) To 11/18/1996 is 4352 days
4352 = 2176 + 2176
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 10/18/1971 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11628 - Establishing a Seal for the Environmental Protection Agency ) is 2176 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 11/18/1996 is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
See also other posts by me on this topic including possible future updates by me and including: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/05/first-contact.html
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/fullcredits
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Captain KIRK: Excuse me. ...I'd just like to ask a question. ...What does God need with a starship?
GOD: Bring the ship closer.
KIRK: I said ...'What does God need with a starship?'
McCOY: Jim, what are you doing?
KIRK: I'm asking a question.
GOD: Who is this creature?
KIRK: Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/index_concordati-accordi_en.htm
AGREEMENTS OF THE HOLY SEE
Lateran Pact: Agreement between the Holy See and Italy (February 11, 1929)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Captain PICARD: Mister Hawk, before we lost internal sensors what were the exact environmental conditions in main engineering?
HAWK: Atmospheric pressure was two kilopascals above normal, ninety-two percent humidity, thirty-nine point one degrees Celsius.
PICARD: Thirty-nine point one degrees Celsius. ...Like a Borg ship. They knew their ship was doomed, our shields were down and somehow they transported over here without being detected. They'll assimilate the Enterprise, and then ...Earth.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16068
The American Presidency Project
Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
151 - Executive Order 8985 Establishing the Office of Censorship.
December 19, 1941
Statement:
All Americans abhor censorship, just as they abhor war. But the experience of this and of all other Nations has demonstrated that some degree of censorship is essential in wartime, and we are at war.
The important thing now is that such forms of censorship as are necessary shall be administered effectively and in harmony with the best interests of our free institutions.
It is necessary to the national security that military information which might be of aid to the enemy be scrupulously withheld at the source.
It is necessary that a watch be set upon our borders, so that no such information may reach the enemy, inadvertently or otherwise, through the medium of the mails, radio, or cable transmission, or by any other means.
It is necessary that prohibitions against the domestic publication of some types of information, contained in long-existing statutes, be rigidly enforced.
Finally, the Government has called upon a patriotic press and radio to abstain voluntarily from the dissemination of detailed information of certain kinds, such as reports of the movements of vessels and troops. The response has indicated a universal desire to cooperate.
In order that all of these parallel and requisite undertakings may be coordinated and carried forward in accordance with a single uniform policy, I have appointed Byron Price, Executive News Editor of the Associated Press, to be Director of Censorship, responsible directly to the President. He has been granted a leave of absence by the Associated Press and will take over the post assigned him within the coming week, or sooner.
Executive Order:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, and particularly by section 303, Title III of the Act of December 18, 1941, Public Law 354, 77th Congress, 1st session, and deeming that the public safety demands it, I hereby order as follows:
1. There is hereby established the Office of Censorship, at the head of which shall be a Director of Censorship. The Director of Censorship shall cause to be censored, in his absolute discretion, communications by mail, cable, radio, or other means of transmission passing between the United States and any foreign country or which may be carried by any vessel or other means of transportation touching at any port, place, or Territory of the United States and bound to or from any foreign country, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President shall from time to time prescribe. The establishment of rules and regulations in addition to the provisions of this Order shall not be a condition to the exercise of the powers herein granted or the censorship by this Order directed. The scope of this Order shall include all foreign countries except such as may hereafter be expressly excluded by regulation.
2. There is hereby created a Censorship Policy Board, which shall consist of the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Navy, the Director of the Office of Government Reports, and the Director of the Office of Facts and Figures. The Postmaster General shall act as Chairman of the Board. The Censorship Policy Board shall advise the Director of Censorship with respect to policy and the coordination and integration of the censorship herein directed.
3. The Director of Censorship shall establish a Censorship Operating Board, which shall consist of representatives of such departments and agencies of the Government as the Director shall specify. Each representative shall be designated by the head of the department or agency which he represents. The Censorship Operating Board shall, under the supervision of the Director perform such duties with respect to operations as the Director shall determine.
4. The Director of Censorship is authorized to take all such measures as may be necessary or expedient to administer the powers hereby conferred, and, in addition to the utilization of existing personnel of any department or agency available therefor, to employ, or authorize the employment of, such additional personnel as he may deem requisite.
5. As used in this Order the term "United States" shall be construed to include the Territories and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands.
Citation: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Executive Order 8985 Establishing the Office of Censorship.," December 19, 1941.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: Well, well, well. What have we got here? ...I love a good peep show.
(Cochrane looks through a telescope and sees the Enterprise orbiting)
COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-abc-afterschool-special/the-last-of-the-curlews-219533/
tv.com
The ABC Afterschool Special Season 1 Episode 1
Aired Wednesday 4:00 PM Oct 04, 1972 on ABC
AIRED: 10/4/72
http://www.tv.com/shows/galactica-1980/the-super-scouts-1-15040/
tv.com
Galactica 1980 Season 1 Episode 4
The Super Scouts (1)
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Mar 16, 1980 on ABC
Epiosde Summary
When the Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, Adama sends Troy and Dillon to take the children to Earth for their own safety.
AIRED: 3/16/80
Galactica 1980
"The Super Scouts - Part 1"
Television series Season 1 episode 4 - 16 March 1980
00 hours 46 minutes 22 seconds
Lieutenant Dillion, Battlestar Galactica: What's all the excitement about?
Jamie Hamilton, Earth journalist: You and the little Super Scouts.
Captain Troy, Battlestar Galactica: Super Scouts?
Jamie Hamilton: Troy, I just came from the sheriff's. They know you're imposters.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-paper-chase/the-paper-chase-229028/
tv.com
The Paper Chase Season 1 Episode 0
The Paper Chase
Aired Sep 09, 1978 on CBS
Episode Summary
James Hart has no idea what he is about to step into, as he enters the class room of the brilliant and tyrannical Professor Kingsfield during his first day of law school.
AIRED: 9/9/78
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
LILY: We've got to get to the Phoenix!
Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: To hell with the Phoenix.
http://www.tv.com/shows/wings/around-the-world-in-eighty-years-15968/trivia/
tv.com
Wings Season 1 Episode 2
Around the World in Eighty Years
Aired Thursday 9:30 PM Apr 26, 1990 on NBC
Quotes
Brian : Quick Helen call the SWAT team there's a guy loose in the airport minding his own business.
Joe : You ought to introduce yourself Brian, maybe he gives lessons.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:43 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 22 September 2018
